On May 28 this year, the European Commission (EC) has opened a public consultation to collect views on the main policy options for developing an ‘ambitious’ new approach on the circular economy, which will feed into the revised Circular Economy Package action plan, scheduled for release ‘by the end of 2015’.

The upcoming package will comprise a revised legislative proposal as foundation for binding regulations in the Member States. Areas covered by the package are: production, consumption, markets for secondary raw materials, sectoral measures, and enabling factors for the circular economy, including innovation and investment. We as European citizens and businesses are asked to decide on the importance and priority of a range of potential EC actions, including:

We will inform you about the importance and contents of the planned EU Circular Economy package and why a first attempt of putting it into law failed in 2014.

Based on a prepared survey, we will collect opinions from OCSE participants to draft a letter, which we deliver to the respective EU project team led by First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella, and Industry Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska.